Peppertree Broadcast Ltd

Curriculum Vitae


Name: Telephone: Fax: E-mail: Status:	Michael David HALL +44 (0) 7973 755169 +44 (0) 7970 530349 website@peppertree-broadcast.co.uk Married to Marie with son William	Date of Birth: Nationality:	21.05.1968 British

Employment History:

June 1996 - present Broadcast Engineer (Freelance)
ABC News, BBC, EBU Operations, FORTO, Globecast NE, ITV Sport, LWT, MBC, Telenor(UK)

Various work has included:-
- Extensive Master Control Room engineering for BBC Resources, (using BNCS systems) and ABC News Intercontinental, (using Omnibus systems).
- Satellite uplinking and downlinking for the busy teleports of Globecast Northern Europe and Telenor(UK).
- Installation, testing and operation at several major events for various international broadcasters, (see below).

	Feb 06	EBU Sports Operations, Employed in the offices of the EBU at the International Broadcast Centre, (IBC), Turin for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. Responsibilities included operation and troubleshooting the installation of the EBU’s equipment along with feeds to it’s members, (both within the IBC and out to it’s members home countries).

	Aug 04	EBU Sports Operations, Working in the EBU MCR serving the EBU's 40 plus members within the IBC and it's many other members located throughout Europe for the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, Greece.

	Jun 04	EBU Sports Operations/EBS, Working in the host broadcaster MCR on the installation and operation of the equipment, along with management of the 8 strong operations team for the Euro2004 European Football Championships in Lisbon, Portugal.

	Jul/Aug 02	BBC Host Broadcaster, Installation, fault finding, operation and maintenance of the IBC master control room from where the world's broadcasters received their images of the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games.

	May/Jul 02	ITV Sport, Part of a small team responsible for the construction of ITV's facility in the IBC Seoul, for their World Cup 2002 coverage. Subsequently the same team took on operational rolls, working closely with the production team in Korea.

	Jan 02	EBU Sports Operations, Part of the small advance team doing installation, testing and subsequently operation and maintenance of the EBU's master control, dispatch and VTR areas in the Salt Lake City IBC for the 2002 Winter Olympic games.

	Jun 01	BBC, Construction, testing and Engineering co-ordination of the‘Satellite Hub’ in BBC TV centre for their Election 2001 programme.

	Sep 00	EBU Sports Operations, Summer Olympic Games, Sydney; Installation and operation of the EBU’s MCR at the International Broadcast Centre, (IBC), at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

	Jun 00	ITV Sport, Euro 2000 Football Championships, Amsterdam. MCR operations at ITV’s studio in the IBC Amsterdam, during the month long football championships.

	Dec 99	ABC News; construction and operation of a 3 camera OB in Rome for their millennium night live coverage.

	May 97	BBC, Engineering Co-ordinator of South East Hub for their Election 97 programme.

	Dec 96/Jan 97	Engineering Co-ordination for Channel 4’s “Wanted” programme

	Aug 96	EBU Sports Operations, Atlanta Olympic Games. Based in the EBU MCR at the IBC in Atlanta working as a VANDA engineer for the 1996 Centennial Olympic games.

	Jul 96	FORTO 96, European Football Championships. Working in the VANDA control area for FORTO 96, acting as host broadcaster for the 1996 European Football Championships.

	Dec 95/Jun96	BBC Network Engineering, BBC Television Centre. Working in BBC Television Centre’s busy MCR, (CAR), and International Control rooms, (ICR), during a period of departmental restructuring involving the amalgamation of the above two areas.

July 1994 - Dec 1995 Technical Supervisor,
Orbit Communications Company, (Italia) SpA

One of four supervisors of a multi-cultural team of twenty four people working in the entirely digital, (270MHz SDI / AES), MCR and Orbit’s Digital Betacam based VT area. I reported directly to the Chief Engineer and co-ordinated the MCR and VTR activities of the department on a shift basis. The job involved the management, training, appraisal and welfare of the shift team as a whole, as well as dealing with the range of problems that a start up operation of this scale presents.

Sept 1989 - July 1994 Broadcast Engineer
BBC Studio and Network Engineering,

The job involved rotation between the operational areas of the Master, International and Network Control Rooms as well as a base maintenance area and two small, four-camera studios. Principle duties were electronic maintenance and operational engineering involving frequent periods of acting as the most senior engineer in any one of the above areas. My experience includes the 1992 UK General Election and the Albertville Olympic Games. As an engineer in Television Centre’s studio department I undertook electronic maintenance, line-up and colour balancing of up to eight cameras.

Qualifications:

Broadcast
BBC Engineering qualified Broadcast Engineer, (BBC ETSI’s)

Honours Degree
Upper second class honours degree (2.1) in Special Mathematics
Hull University, Cottingham Road, Hull, Nth Humberside.

‘A’ - levels
Mathematics (B), Physics (B), Chemistry (B), General Studies (C)

Other
Full, clean, car and motorbike driving licences.
Programming experience in Visual BASIC, FORTRAN, FORTH, Z80 Assembly and HTML
Fully competent with Microsoft Windows, Word, Outlook and Excel
Conversational Italian

Training & Courses:

BBC Engineering qualified Broadcast Engineer, (BBC ETSI’s), Omnibus (Omnibus/ABC), Inmarsat M4 and VAST-P TOKO (ABC), Digital Video (BBC), Digital Audio (Watkinson/BBC), Digital Betacam (BBC/Orbit), Training Techniques (Davis/Orbit), PC Engineering (BBC), Broadcast Communications (BBC), Camera Engineering (BBC), Mixers and Matrices (BBC), Studio Systems (BBC), Video Signals Monitoring and Measuring (Tektronix/Orbit), Electronic Fundamentals (BBC), Broadcast Practice (BBC), Electronic Safety and Testing (BBC), Recording Media Seminar (Maxell/Orbit)